This document discusses the conventions and challenges of magazine design. It addresses the masthead, main image, headings, grid spacing, quotes, and barcode/date. Conventions like these are used but sometimes challenged with things like sexual images. The target audience is identified as young, fashionable females. Various technologies used in constructing the magazine are also reviewed, like guidelines, selection tools, and editing images. Looking back, improvements are recognized from the preliminary task to the full product.

2. 1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Conventional mastheads?Conventional selling line?Conventional main image?Challenged forms with sexual imagesConventional main feature?Challenged with equal columns Conventional barcode/dateThis shows how a well known magazine has done certain conventions and also challenged them

3. Conventional MastheadMain Image Direct mode of addressCover linesLeft third is heavily utilizedBuzz WordsQuoteMain FeatureThe colour scheme of her outfits fits the colour scheme of the magazineIssue and barcode

4. 1. Conventional Heading8. Grid Spacing. Conventional 2.Headings to group the pages4. Main Image; slightly of angle, like its stuck down.3.Features, to attracted the audience6. subscription, buzz words ‘Only’Inspirations from Q magazine.7. Introduction to main feature to attract the reader.5. Main Feature; used ¾ of the page to make it stand out.

5. Masthead: linking to the front cover.Main ImagesHeading: Relating to the front cover. Same font as the font coverGrid Spacing quotationsSmaller additional imagesFeature

6. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groupsAge group?Gender?Interests?

7. Models used...High street brandsWinter headband to represent the seasonDirest mode of addressYouthful casual clothesThe main image is there to attract other women. Laddered tights to show her own sense of rough edgy styleKnee high socks ‘preppy’Fashionable fur boots

8. Social group...Targeted to a younger female audience Younger generation storiesYoung models Bubble writing Posters show the age.

9. 3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why????

10. Distributors for many magazinesIn partners with the Magazines distributed through FrontlineA huge family successful business.

11. 4.Who would be the audience for your media product?Young fashionable girls

12. My targeted audience are young quirky stylish femalesArtist inspirationsQuirky and cute. Magazine inspirations

13. 5.How did you attract/address your target audience

14. We put the results in a pie chart to gather data together and come up with a conclusion. We did a questionnaire to ask our target audience what they would want in my magazine.

16. Using a model who’s in the same age gapArtist who target the same audience/age groupHigh street fashionable clothesQuirky fontsBuzz words ‘free’

17. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

18. Using guide lines to straighten the magazine. Clone stamp worked well with editing my images.

19. Quick selection tool; I used this when cutting out my images from there background. Learning to do so without cutting any parts of the image out.

20. Liquefy; using to edit my images, making eyes bigger/smaller etc. Erasing the background

21. How I added JPEG images of my magazine onto my blog Learning to convert my images into JPEGs and to upload them of my home folder onto my blogger.

22. Digital photography Pictures I took with the cameras we used. Cameras we used. We found it blurred with quick movement

24. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

25. Similar fontsUsed the same layoutSame imageChange of mindChange of image